How do i check to see if i added the -advmethods flag? I said yes to it during the setup?

I'm not exactly sure the answer to your question, but in your log you got "FahCore_a3.exe" required so I think you are on the right track That's all I've been getting with my Linux/Mac SMP runs and even though every project has been worth only 440ish points, I finally got one today that gave me 2,949

I finally got my first bonus after ~ 14 a3 runs, but I didn't have a passkey right away and at least one crashed when I restarted my Virtualbox Linux instance. I should be finishing another run in about 10 minutes so I will see if the bonuses continue and I make it past 10K

How do i check to see if i added the -advmethods flag? I said yes to it during the setup?

oh, and I see you are running Windows and a GTX 295... have you tried the GPU client? Seems like the way to go on Windows is VMWare Player with Linux and 7 cores for Linux SMP and 1 core for your GPU client I'm running Mac OS on my i920 @ 3.2GhZ so no GPU love for me. The Mac client on my "hackintosh" is also a piece of junk though, at least on my Mac Mini (poor thing, chugging along for 19 minutes per frame) with 10.5 it seems stable.

Anyway, I should be in bed and not waiting for my next project to finish

So, I thought I'd try out folding for SPCR since I love the site and my core i7 box is generally bored Now I'm trying to keep from getting too addicted... it maybe too late

Anyway, I'm so annoyed!!! My UPS died this morning and my Linux folding VM came back without an IP address, and apparently didn't retry when the network came back... so when I came home, it had given up trying to get *new* work, so I just cleanly rebooted it so I didn't have to mess with ethtools/dhcpd/blah blah...

But when it came back, it didn't upload my finished WU! It just got a new one and started folding My date of last WU on stanford's site is 5:04 (9AM ish) and that's when my Mac Mini also happened to finish. I even found "qgen" and tried creating a new queue.dat (qfix saw the orphaned entry but didn't do anything). Bummer.

Anyway, this seems like a great cause to spend a 100W or so in a fun competition It may actually push me over the edge to get a new PS3...

Hey Frenchi, sorry to hear about it. I'm hoping to move at some point, so I'll probably lose a few days.

But yeah, I have to wonder how they're going to cool that thing. I'd imagine a triple slot cooler built in could be the answer, but eh, they'll probably just make the fan go fast and make it noisier. Ideally, if we get some decent aftermarket coolers for the 470/480, we could move toward dual gpu systems that might run somewhat quiet.

Yeah, you have to take the bonus into account, I'd recommend getting hfm.net (find it here: http://code.google.com/p/hfm-net/)
It does everything fahmon does, and it accounts for bonuses (although it can be a little optimisitic, I think). But 57 min. per step is still not too great, even with the bonus it's not ripping along, what's that running on?

They've lately started up some A3 bigadv projects, which basically seems to be the beginning of the end for the bigadv big points stuff. On the i7 980x, I can get 33k ppd with the gpu off, but I got an A3 bigadv last week, and I was getting 25kppd a day. The new projects may allow bigadvs to run on Windows (although they aren't doing it yet, I think), but the previous bigadv linux people will get screwed, I think. Anyway, I hope you haven't gotten one of those.

Bit Defender brought all my folding to almost a complete stop. After I told it to ignore folding it ran as before. I also had to tell BD to ignore IE, disk defragger, and some other programs. I find it to work but it is a little too aggressive.

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An e7200? Most of the info I have on that says it runs at 2.53 GHz. Have you overclocked it? Anyway, that's just a dual core, so it won't be a killer cpu or anything, but it should get some work done. Just estimating, but I'd say in the 1500 to 2000 ppd range. Probably more, I have a 1.3Ghz dual core, and it does about 800ppd, so that's right around 2000 ppd if it scales linearly, but it should be slightly exponential. But yeah, Aristide is right, check the background processes, be sure to shut down any screensavers or other intensive stuff. I find the worst offenders to be browsers, I have to make sure to close up firefox if I'm not using it, or else it will just suck down cpu cycles.

Hey Cordis, I haven't looked into it. I just moved a few thousand miles and the computer is still somewhere in the world with some of my stuff... but not in my new house yet !! It might get here tomorrow or the day after.
But when it gets here, and after a PSU fan swap, a major GPU mod, and a general health check of the computer (only God knows what happened to it on the way here...) I' ll look into it.
This problem is just weird, it's the first time this has happened to this machine. Usually it folds fast enough to finish all the WUs. And it's frustrating to get a WU that has a deadline in 2 days and you know it's going to take 3 days to finish it... As soon as the computer is up and running, I'll gladly break the million points mark !!!!

PSU fan swapped, VERY UGLY GPU mod done (not tested yet), computer cleaned....
All I need is a keyboard with a wire to boot !!! (I have to press F1 to boot for some reason but my wireless keyboard won't work for some reason)

And then I'll finally pass those 1 million points !! Be back soon hopefully !!

[EDIT : GPU mod is a disaster cooling wise (stopped the load test at 100C)... Bending the pipes on the Accelero works only if they don't get twisted, which is partly what I did... Oh well, life is about trial and error right ? Mostly error though... The point is I need a new GPU cooler, and I'll finally try the Nexus fan that is SPCR's favorite !! Will update ASAP]

Scroll down to about the middle, and there's the Prolimatech mk-13 and the thermalright t-rad 2, either of those might work. But I'm not sure what your case constraints are, I assume that if you tried bending the pipes, then you must have been trying something a little different. But whatever, if you want any more suggestions, post again.

Thanks Cordis !
I'm trying to find a VGA cooler that stands as far away from the card as possible and that requires the least amount of airflow to work well. The best candidate so far seems to be the HR-03 GT...
FYI, what I tried to do is this : http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/vi ... highlight=I don't have great tools so it doesn't look great. I can takes pics and post them if necessary but sonce it's a failure...

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